Asymmetric Effect of the Oil Price in the Ecuadorian Economy

27 Pages Posted: 18 Feb 2023

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Alan Bunce

affiliation not provided to SSRN

Paul Carrillo-Maldonado

Universidad de las Américas (UDLA); Ecuadorian Political Economy Lab (EPEL)

Abstract

This paper aims to identify whether there is an asymmetric response of the output to positive and negative changes in the price of oil. We take the case of Ecuador, an oil exporter but also an importer of derivates of the same commodity. We implement the local projections methodology to estimate this asymmetric response through state-dependence impulse response function. The results evidence that the negative variations of oil prices affect the Ecuadorian GDP more than when this commodity is rising. Also, we show that the persistence of the effect is higher when the oil price fall than there are positive variations.

Keywords: Asymmetry, Oil Price, local projections, Growth, Ecuador

Suggested Citation

Bunce, Alan and Carrillo-Maldonado, Paul, Asymmetric Effect of the Oil Price in the Ecuadorian Economy. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4363284 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4363284

Alan Bunce

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Paul Carrillo-Maldonado (Contact Author)

Universidad de las Américas (UDLA) ( email )

de los colimes, Av. De los Granados
Colimes
Quito, Pichincha 170137
Ecuador

HOME PAGE: http://https://sites.google.com/site/paulacarrillomaldonado/

Ecuadorian Political Economy Lab (EPEL) ( email )

Quito, Pichincha
Ecuador

HOME PAGE: http://www.economiclab.org

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